Twenty-first century progress toward the global control of human hookworm infection

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 210-217

  Bungiro, Richard ^a   Cappello, Michael ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma; Anemia; Bloodfeeding; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Helminth; Hookworm; Immunology; Necator; Nematode; Parasite; Pathogenesis; Prevention; Treatment; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; IRON; MEASLES VACCINE; MEBENDAZOLE; NECATOR AMERICANUS VACCINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MIXED INFECTION; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; TRICHURIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WORM EXPULSION;

EID: 79956215244     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-011-0182-z     Document Type: Article

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